TEACHING NOTES

Courses Taught by Prof. Binford


Fall 2008
GEO 2200 Physical Geography; and
GIS 5306: Geographic Information Systems Applications in Environmental Systems



Spring 2009
  GIS 4021c Air Photo Interpretation, and
 GEO 4938/6938 Biogeography  


              

   

             Link to the Land Use and Environmental Change Institute (LUECI)

Link to the Interdisciplinary Program in Geographic Information Systems at the University of Florida

Links to Interesting Remote Sensing and GIS Resources

Links to Interesting Paleoecology and Landscape Ecology Resources

Links to Interesting Land Use/Land Cover Change Research Resources
 

Other Interesting Academic Locations:

University of Florida Department of Geography

University of Florida College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Harvard University Graduate School of Design

    RESEARCH NOTES

Michael W. Binford's Curriculum Vitae

Prof. Binford engaged in field work near Kibale National Park, Uganda


Project Web Pages


NSF Grant BCS-0433787: Economic Growth, Social Inequality, and Environmental Change in Thailand and Cambodia. SES-HSD Agents of Change Program. 15 September 2004 - 15 February 2008. (under construction). http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/mbinford/thailand_cambodia/HSD_project.html

Collaborative Research: Consequences of Parks for Land Use, Livelihood Diversification, and Biodiversity in East Africa. Geography and Regional Science Program, National Science Foundation. 1 April  2004 – 30 March 2006. (under construction)

NASA Grant NAG-5-9331: Land-Use and Land-Cover Change: Decadal-Scale Dynamics of Land Ownership, and Carbon Storage Patterns in the Southeastern Lower Coastal Plain Region of the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Office of Earth Science, Land Use/Land Cover Change Program. 1 May 2000 – 31 December 2003. http://www.surv.ufl.edu/nasa/

Recent Publications about Thailand Environment-Economics Interactions


Binford, M.W., T.J. Lee, R.M. Townsend. 2004. Sampling design for an integrated socioeconomic and ecological survey by using satellite remote sensing and ordination. Proceedings of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. 101:11517-11522.

Felkner, J.S. and M.W. Binford. 2002. Modeling a soil moisture index using geographic information systems in a developing country context (Thailand). Ch II.10, pp 513-538. in R.L. France. Handbook of Water Sensitive Planning and Design. Lewis Publishers. Boca Raton, FL. 699 pages. (WARNING - large file: 25 MB)


Recent Publications about Lake Titicaca

Nitrogen Fixation in Soils and Canals of Rehabilitated Raised-Fields of the Bolivian Altiplano. Biotropica 31(2):255-267.

High-Resolution Sediment Record of Lake Level Changes in Lago Titicaca, South America. Quaternary Research 47:169-180.

Climate Variation and the Rise and Fall of an Andean Civilization. Quaternary Research 47:235-248.


Mainland Southeast Asia - The Study area for Dr. Binford's collaborative project with Dr.Alan Kolata and Dr. Robert Townsend of the University of Chicago.


From www.earthscienceworld.org: This true-color image of mainland Southeast Asia was acquired on November 30, 2001, by the Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), flying aboard NASA’s Terra spacecraft. The light brown Mekong River winds its way through the center of the Cambodian jungle and into southern Vietnam. The dark blue patch to the left of the river at the bottom of the image is the Tonle Sap. Literally translated to mean Great Lake, the Tonle Sap is the largest freshwater lake in Southeast Asia. During the rainy season from May to October, the lake will more than double in size growing from its wintertime extent of 2,500 square kilometers to over 13,000 square kilometers.



Image of Lakes Titicaca and Poopo Provided by the SeaWiFS Project, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center